The Associated Press Twitter account is a must-follow for breaking-news junkies. It's also a great guide to the many ways you can fuck up breaking news. Like when it reported the status this morning of an aircraft carrying the bodies of MH17 victims back to Holland:

Now, this quickly led to a freakout on Twitter, and understandably so. The MH17 shootdown has been big news, rife with cloak-and-dagger recriminations and lingering mysteries. And it wasn't the only bad aviation news; nine minutes previously, the AP had been tweeting about devastation at the scene of another commercial jet crash in Taiwan.

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So suggesting that a plane carrying the bodies of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 victims had also crashed was apt to make tweeters go bonkers.